Blue Rose Trilogy · Book 1

Koko

by Peter Straub

Published
1 January 1988
Pages
562
ISBN-13
9780307472205
Type
novel

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Cover of Koko

About this book

Koko opens the trilogy in 1988 at 562 pages and won the World Fantasy Award, following four Vietnam veterans reunited by the discovery that a wartime atrocity they buried may be resurfacing as murders across Asia.

Its place in Blue Rose Trilogy

Koko is book 1 in the Blue Rose Trilogy series. It is followed by Mystery. See the full Blue Rose Trilogy reading order.

The Blue Rose Trilogy is Peter Straub's loosely connected sequence of literary horror-mysteries, named for the words a killer leaves scrawled at each of his crime scenes in the shared fictional town of Millhaven, Illinois. Koko (1988), which won the World Fantasy Award, follows four Vietnam veterans reunited by the discovery that a wartime atrocity they buried may be resurfacing as a string of murders across Asia, each signed with the name "Koko." Mystery (1990) shifts focus to Tom Pasmore, a young boy who…

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